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Internal Memo Reveals Capitol Police Were Warned BLM from Baltimore Was Bussing in Rioters Disguised as Trump Supporters on Jan. 6​

Trump supporters were framed by FBI and government operatives and BLM and Antifa terrorists.

A leaked internal memo revealed that the US Capitol Police intel unit warned that BLM from Baltimore was bussing in rioters for January 6th protests.

According to the memo the rioters were going to blend in.

Via investigative reporter Paul Sperry:

“BLM/Antif will wear MAGA hats, wear camo,and attempt to blend in with MAGA crowd” so violence blamed on Trump supporters attending Trump rally

Antifa was actively involved in the January 6th protests and riots.

This has been widely discussed by officials and in reports on this website.

Cristina Laila wrote this back in February 2021 — Ex-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund dropped a bombshell in February 2021 during a hearing before the Senate Rules and Homeland Security committees.

Mr. Sund testified that according to intelligence gathered by law enforcement groups, members of the Proud Boys, white supremacist groups, ANTIFA and other extremist groups were expected to participate on January 6 and that they may be inclined to become violent.

The Democrat-media complex has totally ignored eyewitness accounts detailing how black bloc Antifa terrorists infiltrated the peaceful MAGA demonstrations.

According to a former FBI agent on the ground at the US Capitol, at least one bus load of Antifa goons infiltrated the Trump rally as part of a false flag operation.

Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Tuesday entered into the record explosive testimony of eyewitness accounts from Michael Waller detailing how he saw “agents-provocateurs” at the Capitol.

 

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Despite the ongoing revelation of countless irregularities in the 2020 presidential election, Democrats and government officials have refelexively claimed the election was "the most secure in American history" — or at least that fraud was too minor to affect the outcome. Election irregularity denialists have attempted to stigmatize those who have scrutinized the anomalies marring a presidential election dominated by novel mass mail-in voting procedures imposed late in the election cycle across a range of swing states indispensable in securing Joe Biden's victory.

But back in 2016, Hillary Clinton's campaign and leading Democrats sought to taint Donald Trump's win in a more conventional electoral process by promoting the since-debunked Trump-Russia collusion theory in a bid to persuade electors to change their votes from Trump to another candidate.

Phill Kline, director of The Amistad Project, told Just the News that "leftist groups tried to stop electors from voting for Trump" through protests, calls to change electoral votes, and requesting a Trump-Russia collusion update, in a "coordinated and concentrated effort to interfere with, delay, or alter the Electoral College vote, when that vote would be cast, and then Trump's inauguration."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's daughter, Christine Pelosi, who was an elector in 2016, was one of the 80 Hamilton Electors (all but one of whom were Democrats) who led an effort to receive a briefing on the Trump-Russia collusion investigation prior to the Electoral College vote.

They named themselves after founder Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Paper No. 68, which notes that the Electoral College is designed to prevent a "desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils."

Flashback: Dems sought to taint Trump 2016 win, change electors' pledged votes

While House Democrats' Jan. 6 panel tries to stigmatize scrutiny of disputed 2020 election, key party figures used bogus Russia collusion allegations contrived at behest of Hillary Clinton campaign in bid to block transfer of power to Trump.

justthenews.com

 

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Like The J6 Committee, Fulton County DA Works Overtime To Criminalize Challenges To Election Law Violations​

In January of this year, D.A. Willis first requested that the chief judge of the Fulton County Superior Court, Christopher Brasher, impanel a “special grand jury” to assist in Fulton County’s investigation “into any coordinated attempts to unlawfully alter the outcome of the 2020 elections in this state.” Willis claimed a special grand jury was needed because her office had “received information indicating a reasonable probability that the State of Georgia’s administration of elections in 2020, including the State’s election of the President of the United States, was subject to possible criminal disruptions.”

What those supposed “possible criminal disruptions” were, she didn’t say. And for good reason: Willis’ investigation represents a political witch hunt seeking retribution against Trump and his lawyers for challenging the Georgia election results.

The proof of this reality lies foremost in the fact that in seeking the appointment of a special grand jury, Willis stressed that it would lack the authority to return any indictments but instead “may make recommendations concerning criminal prosecution as it shall see fit.” In other words, the special grand jury will not return an indictment but instead will issue a report.

Given the D.A.’s one-sided presentation of evidence to the special grand jury, any report will, by design, merely regurgitate what Willis fed the group — garbage in, garbage out. Willis doesn’t need an indictment to prevail in her attempt to paint Trump and his supports as criminals, however, as just leaking information on the subpoenas served that end. In fact, even if the special grand jury recommends criminal charges, watch for Willis to demur for some self-righteous reason, so those accused cannot defend themselves or challenge any bogus legal theories of criminal liability advanced by the district attorney.

Further proof that the D.A.’s investigation is a sham comes from her focus on Trump’s January 2, 2021, telephone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Democrats and the sycophant media continue to falsely claim that Trump asked Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes during that call, even though a transcript of the conversation has been publicly available for over a year and a half. That transcript confirms that during the phone conversation with Raffensperger’s office, Trump and his legal team weren’t pushing Raffensperger to “find” more votes for Trump, but to investigate the evidence Trump’s legal team had accumulated showing illegal votes were cast in the 2020 general election in Georgia well in excess of Biden’s 11,779 vote margin.

 

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[Kyle]

 

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Americans See Jan. 6 Hearings As Politically Biased And Anti-Trump: I&I/TIPP Poll​

The Jan. 6 hearings mark the third major investigation into former President Donald Trump’s time in office. To many people, in particular Republicans, these investigations have looked suspiciously politicized, especially the most recent hearings. What’s surprising is that a large share of Democrats agree, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll results show.

Republicans have been front and center in criticizing the Jan. 6 hearings as little more than a political circus intended to besmirch Trump.

Even the makeup of the “bipartisan” committee has come in for ridicule, since the two GOP members of the nine-member panel were handpicked by the Democrats — contrary to the common practice of having a party select its own representatives. This wasn’t helped by the fact that the two GOP members, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, are both vociferous critics of Trump and voted for his impeachment.

But is the deck really stacked against the controversial former president? Republicans give a resounding “yes.” But most surprising of all, many, if not most, Democrats agree.

In the July 2022 online I&I/TIPP Poll, we asked 1,643 adults across the country whether they agreed with the following two statements:

1. “Some say that the Jan. 6 committee was handpicked and represents only Democrats’ points of view.”
2. “Some say that the Jan. 6 committee’s main aim is to ensure President Trump can’t run in 2024.”

 

[Hijinx]

This woman is totally unequipped to handle this job, and she needs to comb her hair out and get rid of those nasty knots, she hasn't washed in days.

 

[PrchJrkr]

She's just another lying POS carrying water for the POS in the White House. Like many of joe's appointees, she lacks the skill set and intelligence required to perform her job.

 

[itsbob]

I don't see how they can fire people for not showing them their communications.
Where is the Constitution? Don't employees have any rights at all. Like the right to go to a political rally on their days off?

These officers need a good attorney.

They need a criminal attorney.. Better Call Saul!

 

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'You'll Never Beat The Government With Just Guns,' Says Party That Also Believes Government Was Almost Toppled By Unarmed Mob On January 6

'You'll Never Beat The Government With Just Guns,' Says Party That Also Believes Government Was Almost Toppled By Unarmed Mob On January 6

babylonbee.com

So in essence, what he said was, as the time and place 2A was written, and in the spirit of 2A, today's citizens should be allowed to own artillery, tanks, battleships.. etc.. etc.. JUST like they did then

 

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Seattle Cops Threatened With Termination Unless They Hand Over Personal Communications


Six Seattle police officers are being threatened with termination unless they turn over personal communications in the wake of their visits to Washington, D.C., to attend the Jan 6th Trump rally.

The Office of Police Accountability (OPA) has asked for private communications even after the officers were cleared of any wrongdoing associated with the Capitol riot.

Two of the officers posted pictures on social media showing they attended the Trump rally that day. Four more came forward voluntarily to confirm their attendance. Each officer was on vacation, and none were in uniform.

But the investigation that cleared the officers wasn’t enough for the OPA. They carried out a “pro-active investigation” on their own and are demanding the police officers turn over their personal information or face termination.

KTTH:

We were basically threatened with the same thing.. IF you use your personal phone for business, checking your e-mail, making phone calls.. they have the right to take our personal phones to "audit" them. NORMALLY you'd think Audit would be to ensure nothing sensitive in nature was shared or any security issues were realized, but the threat was for people working from home that have no choice but to use their personal phones, can now be audited to see how much time is spent on their phone on Facebook, or Amazon, or SOMD!! If we refuse to give up our PERSONAL phones, we could be terminated.

 

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Seattle still has police???

 

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Angry AOC Admits Capitol Police Held the Doors Wide Open on January 6 (VIDEO)​

In the video, AOC just made a confession saying that the Capitol Police opened the door wide on January 6.

“These insurrectionists and that there were actual officers working with this, and we never got to the bottom of that, and we never got any answers about that. And then to this day, we’re just supposed to pretend that that never happened. I have no idea what happened to the people on the inside who were very clearly sympathetic with what was going on and opening the doors wide open for that. And I’m supposed to sit here and pretend like none of that ever happened,” angry AOC sa

 

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Just the News reported Wednesday on the growing outcry among legal experts against perceived Justice Department strong-arm tactics targeting skeptics of the 2020 presidential election outcome and other critics of the Biden administration.

An architect of Trump administration trade policy, Navarro produced in an unofficial capacity a three-part report questioning the "fairness and integrity" of the 2020 presidential election.

Navarro was publicly arrested by FBI agents at Reagan National Airport just outside Washington, D.C. last month on misdemeanor charges that he acted in contempt of Congress by defying a subpoena from House Democrats' committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

According to Navarro, federal agents put him in handcuffs, leg irons, strip-searched him, denied him a chance to call his lawyer, and deprived him of food and water. The Justice Department has said those claims are false.

At a hearing in Navarro's case on Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta indicated he agreed federal agents used unnecessary force against the former White House official, Politico reported.

"It is curious ... at a minimum why the government treated Mr. Navarro's arrest in the way it did," said Mehta. "It is a federal crime, but it is not a violent crime."

Mehta said it was baffling that prosecutors didn't simply tell Navarro he was going to be charged and let him walk into an FBI office.

"It is a surprise to me that self-surrender was not offered," said the judge, who didn't demand an explanation from prosecutors.

Judge expresses concern about harsh DOJ methods in misdemeanor arrest of Navarro

On Wednesday, Just the News reported on growing outcry against perceived Justice Department strong-arm tactics targeting skeptics of the 2020 presidential election outcome and other critics of the Biden administration.

justthenews.com

 

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Washington Post Flops In Disingenuous Attack On Powerhouse Claremont Institute​

Not Even Hitting the Broadside of a Barn​

Before we get to Eastman, it’s worth noting that some of the WaPo’s attempts to smear Claremont are simply risible. “The institute remains divided and other conservative journals ask what ‘happened to the Claremont Institute?’” What conservative journals, you ask? The neocon website The Bulwark founded by Bill Kristol, of course. In other words, a publication whose claim to the title of conservative is as tenuous as that of Jennifer Rubin or Michael Gerson is their best example of the right’s consternation over Claremont.

It cites a former Claremont fellow, “speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid alienating friends at the institute,” who claims the institute will “justify any means necessary to preserve the republic…. That’s how Claremont goes from this quirky intellectual outfit to one of the main intellectual architects of trying to overthrow the republic.” Overthrow the republic? Where’s the evidence for that incredible accusation? The article and the anonymous source provide none.

Indeed, the WaPo’s citation of one of the most prominent voices at Claremont, Charles Kesler — a senior fellow at the institute, editor of the Claremont Review of Books, and a government professor at (the unaffiliated) Claremont McKenna College — does not exactly support the “insurrection” thesis. “I’m persuaded that John [Eastman] was wrong in the advice he gave Trump,” said Kesler, citing many other people at Claremont who think the same. In other words, the leading intellectual at Claremont does not agree with Eastman regarding the 2020 election. For an organization whose reputation is supposedly “in tatters,” its revenue and influence have continued to grow since 2020 in spite of its ambivalence about the 2020 election.

Punching Back​

But perhaps the worst (or best) part of this misguided hit piece is its attempt to smear Claremont through an attack on Claremont’s president, Ryan P. Williams, who declined an interview through a spokesman and requested written questions. “Those yielded no response.” The WaPo reporters even went to his house (“no answer”) and visited Claremont’s headquarters, “a two-story unit with gold-colored chandeliers at the back of a drab office building.” (What purpose do those details serve? To accuse Claremont of having poor taste?). The receptionist told the journalists that Williams was gone.

Just prior to publication, Williams offered a statement to The Washington Post:

We’re proud of what we do at the Claremont Institute; for over 40 years, our scholarship and teaching have had a positive and substantive effect on the nation’s political discourse. … That said, the Claremont Institute is not interested in participating in the fiction that the Washington Post is a legitimate media outlet, or that its chronically discredited journalists are dispassionate fact-finders intent on bringing their readers objective news.

Doesn’t that say it all? Why pretend that The Washington Post is a neutral and objective disseminator of information in 2022? Just look at the WaPo’s very obvious pro-choice coverage of abortion. Or the great latitude it gives their reporters to try and dig up dirt on conservatives. Name a Democratic Party talking point, and you will see the Post has devoted prime real estate supporting that talking point within the last month. Williams has succinctly stated what even many moderate Americans now recognize: legacy corporate media such as the WaPo and The New York Times have lost their legitimacy as dispassionate sources of the news.

 

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'Stop the Steal' speaker Brandon Straka gave FBI info on rally organizers, more than a dozen others as part of plea deal​

The majority of people on Dornan's list have not been accused of any crimes related to Jan. 6, but several, including the Kremers, Chafian and Alexander, have been named in the ongoing January 6th Committee investigation into the attack on the Capitol. The Kremers – the mother-daughter duo who founded Women for Trump and Women for America First – helped organize the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally and their names appear on the National Parks Service permit for the day. During a July 12 hearing, the committee displayed a Jan. 4, 2021, text message between Kylie Kremer and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell describing former President Donald Trump’s plan to “unexpectedly” call for his supporters to march to the Capitol on Jan. 6. At the same hearing, the committee showed an email from Chafian – who served as director for Women for America First – asking to change the date of a rally planned for after the inauguration to Jan. 6 the day after Trump sent his infamous “will be wild” tweet on Dec. 19, 2020, urging supporters to come to D.C.






Straka also gave contact information and other details about members of a “Stop the Steal” text thread that included, according to Dornan’s memo, Alexander and other right-wing personalities with large social media followings. As well, Dornan said, Straka provided unspecified information about Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin and anti-vax Dr. Simone Gold, who are both affiliated with America’s Frontline Doctors. Gold, like Straka, was charged in connection with the riot and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building. She was sentenced in June to 60 days in jail and a $9,500 fine. Martin posted a picture of herself on social media in the audience of the “Save America March” on Jan. 6 and public video shows her using a megaphone on the west lawn of the Capitol later in the day urging protestors not to climb on scaffolding. She has not been charged in connection with the riot.

Dornan wrote Straka also provided FBI investigators with information about a fellow Nebraska resident who had not previously been identified. According to the memo, Straka provided the FBI information “sufficient to convict” the previously unidentified individual. To date, the individual has not been charged in connection with the riot.

Though the newly unsealed filings do provide an account of who Straka spoke to investigators about, the unsealed portion of Dornan’s filing does not contain a detailed account of what information he provided. A federal judge gave Dornan and prosecutors until Aug. 5 to tell her whether they think remaining exhibits under seal should be released, as well as to submit any proposed redactions to the transcript of a sealed hearing on Jan. 20.

 

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Harvard Study Wrecks Insurrection Narrative of Capitol Riot​

“In the most comprehensive study to date of what motivated the Trump supporters to attack the Capitol, Shorenstein Center researchers found that 20.6 percent of the rioters, a plurality, were motivated to take part in the riot because they supported Trump,” reports The Harvard Crimson. “Another 20.6 percent of the rioters cited Trump’s fraudulent claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged as their primary reason for participating in the Jan. 6 riot.”

This was clearly not the outcome the authors of the study anticipated. “I don’t think I expected the result to be this stark,” Kaylee Fagan, one of the authors of the study, told The Crimson. “I also certainly didn’t expect those two motivations to come up nearly exactly as often as they both did.”

“The documents show that Trump and his allies convinced an unquantifiable number of Americans that representative democracy in the United States was not only in decline, but in imminent, existential danger,” the study said. “This belief translated into a widespread fear of democratic and societal breakdown, which, in turn, motivated hundreds of Americans to travel to DC from far corners of the country in what they were convinced was the nation’s most desperate hour.”

 

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Ray Epps Told FBI He Expected a Bomb Attack Near the Capitol on January 6, Documents Show​

“Yeah, I thought there might be a problem. That’s why I was there,” Epps told an FBI agent and an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force officer in a meeting at the Phoenix office of Epps’s attorney, John Blischak.

Blischak told The Epoch Times he would comment after reviewing the FBI interview summary, but had not done so by press time.

“I was afraid they were going to set off an explosion on one of the side streets,” Epps said, according to a recording of the interview obtained by The Epoch Times. “So we tried to stay in the middle, tried to get there early, tried to stay away from the sides. And if something like that happened, I had a first-aid kit. I could help out.”

Epps told the agents the possibility of violence weighed heavily on his mind and he originally did not plan to travel to Washington. It was only when learning that his son, James Epps Jr., was going to the Trump rally that the senior Epps decided to go and keep an eye on his son, he said.

“As time went on, I started getting a bad feeling like something’s gonna happen,” said Epps, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and former Oath Keepers leader in Arizona. “There’s a lot of wackies out there. I thought something would happen in D.C. I thought there might be, what do they call them, EOD, something like that?”

Epps might have been referring to an improvised explosive device (IED), which is a homemade bomb that was a favorite weapon of insurgents in Afghanistan during the United States’ long war there. In military parlance, an EOD refers to an explosive ordnance disposal specialist—someone who defuses and destroys explosives.

An agent asked for clarification: “Oh, you mean like a terrorist act?”

“Right, like a terrorist act,” Epps said.

 

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Steven M. D’Antuono, the newly appointed head of the Washington, D.C. FBI field office, gave the public a stern warning. “The FBI will leave no stone unturned. This is a 24/7, full bore, extensive operation,” D’Antuono explained during a January 12, 2021 press conference at the Department of Justice. “As Director Wray says, the FBI does not do easy.”

His agency, D’Antuono bragged, has a “long memory and a broad reach.” Agents from 56 FBI field offices across the country “will be knocking on your door if we find out you were part of the criminal activity at the Capitol.” He urged people to turn in their co-workers, neighbors, and relatives if they had information that could help the FBI in its dragnet.

Turns out, his comments weren’t just Beantown-style braggadocio. More than 850 Americans since then have been investigated, arrested, and charged for mostly nonviolent offenses related to the January 6 protest. Armed FBI agents have conducted early morning raids at homes across the country, using military style vehicles to batter in front doors while traumatizing families, children, and neighbors in the process. It is a crusade of fear and terror meant to reinforce D’Antuono’s threats that those who dared to demonstrate against the fraudulent election of Joe Biden that day will pay a hefty price.

Nearly 20 months later, D’Antuono’s office continues to announce new arrests.

And it’s not just Trump voters who face D’Antuono’s wrath. His agents publicly arrested Peter Navarro, a former Trump White House advisor, at Reagan National Airport in June on contempt of Congress charges. Navarro said FBI agents placed him in handcuffs and leg irons even though he lives next door to FBI Headquarters in Washington. After Steve Bannon, a longtime Trump confidant, was convicted on those same charges in July, D’Antuono boasted in a Justice Department press release how it was a great day for democracy: “The tenets of our government rely upon citizens adhering to the established rules of law. Lawful tools, such as subpoenas and other legal orders, are critical in our system of government. Mr. Bannon was found guilty of contempt by a jury of his peers for his choice to ignore a lawful subpoena.”

Where Is Steven D’Antuono? › American Greatness

A few days after the Capitol protest on January 6, 2021, a tough-talking FBI chief with a Boston accent promised the American people that the bureau would spare no resource in hunting down everyone…

amgreatness.com

 

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Steven M. D’Antuono, the newly appointed head of the Washington, D.C. FBI field office, gave the public a stern warning. “The FBI will leave no stone unturned. This is a 24/7, full bore, extensive operation,” D’Antuono explained during a January 12, 2021 press conference at the Department of Justice. “As Director Wray says, the FBI does not do easy.”

His agency, D’Antuono bragged, has a “long memory and a broad reach.” Agents from 56 FBI field offices across the country “will be knocking on your door if we find out you were part of the criminal activity at the Capitol.” He urged people to turn in their co-workers, neighbors, and relatives if they had information that could help the FBI in its dragnet.

Turns out, his comments weren’t just Beantown-style braggadocio. More than 850 Americans since then have been investigated, arrested, and charged for mostly nonviolent offenses related to the January 6 protest. Armed FBI agents have conducted early morning raids at homes across the country, using military style vehicles to batter in front doors while traumatizing families, children, and neighbors in the process. It is a crusade of fear and terror meant to reinforce D’Antuono’s threats that those who dared to demonstrate against the fraudulent election of Joe Biden that day will pay a hefty price.

Nearly 20 months later, D’Antuono’s office continues to announce new arrests.

And it’s not just Trump voters who face D’Antuono’s wrath. His agents publicly arrested Peter Navarro, a former Trump White House advisor, at Reagan National Airport in June on contempt of Congress charges. Navarro said FBI agents placed him in handcuffs and leg irons even though he lives next door to FBI Headquarters in Washington. After Steve Bannon, a longtime Trump confidant, was convicted on those same charges in July, D’Antuono boasted in a Justice Department press release how it was a great day for democracy: “The tenets of our government rely upon citizens adhering to the established rules of law. Lawful tools, such as subpoenas and other legal orders, are critical in our system of government. Mr. Bannon was found guilty of contempt by a jury of his peers for his choice to ignore a lawful subpoena.”

Where Is Steven D’Antuono? › American Greatness

A few days after the Capitol protest on January 6, 2021, a tough-talking FBI chief with a Boston accent promised the American people that the bureau would spare no resource in hunting down everyone…

amgreatness.com

Did he ever find Ray Epps .?